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Nice question. I got about 200GB all organized within iPhoto. Size comes from the pictures being mostly saved in RAW. Still, iPhoto becomes slow. I moved the library to an external hd to have free space on my internal one. I fear the day I got to dig through every picture I made and decide if it is worth keeping or not. :-/
Nice question. I got about 200GB all organized within iPhoto. Size comes from the pictures being mostly saved in RAW. Still, iPhoto becomes slow. I moved the library to an external hd to have free space on my internal one. I fear the day I got to dig through every picture I made and decide if it is worth keeping or not. :-/
I'm thinking out loud here but I believe most people fear that day so I'm wondering whether a service which everyday would ask you to choose between a couple of pictures (say order 10 pictures), you would easily get at least 1000 pictures per years organized. Does it sound any good?
All of the photos are backed up daily to a 1TB RAID1 NAS and monthly to a single 1TB hard disk that rotates to my mother in laws house. My rule of thumb is three copies if you don't want to lose it.
It is important to keep in mind that 16+ gigs of photos is only going to grow over time. That is where we started too.
You've just got to sit down and go through a couple hundred pics and sort them, call it a day, do another couple hundred pics tomorrow, ad nauseum until you're done. Then make sure to stay on top of organizing new photos as they come in.
The hidden benefit is you wind up looking at all your photos! That's what you have them for- to look at! And without motivation, the odds are slim you'll look at them all. (If you're a professional photographer and the photos are not of your life/family/friends but that of your clients, obviously just organize by client/job/)
P.S. there is ONE real sorting method- extract the metadata and divide into folders based on date. It's not very good, but it's the only one I know of you can automate.
I always found Picasa's organization of photo's pretty useful. It automatically categorizes the photo's by date, you can also set it up to do automatic/guided facial recognition. Another nice feature is the integration with a lot of online services. http://picasa.google.com/ Demo video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYO2uhrIZJ4
I've just checked and I have 8500 images which surprised me a little.
Picassa is really good - I tried to get it to tag my images with facial recognition data but I couldn't do it without switching over and I'm happy with digikam for now. I'm rather hoping this feature will appear (perhaps via GSoC; http://libface.sourceforge.net/file/Download.html) in the next year or so.
iPhoto does excellent facial recognition and works rather well on large volumes or images (based on my limited play with it of about an hour or so).
I use Apple's Aperture. I have around 200GB of photos organized in there. When I dump a flash card to the computer (using Aperture), I then remove the card, and delete it manually on the camera. Then I go through a quick pass in aperture rating everything that is just a poor/duplicate shot as '-1', so that it can go into my deletion bin. Ones that are exceptional get marked to '1' at that point. Most don't get rated.…
A safer way would be to keep at least two copies of your photos at all times. I delete mine from the card only after they are on my hard drive and backed up on an external drive.
Nice question. I got about 200GB all organized within iPhoto. Size comes from the pictures being mostly saved in RAW. Still, iPhoto becomes slow. I moved the library to an external hd to have free space on my internal one. I fear the day I got to dig through every picture I made and decide if it is worth keeping or not. :-/
Huhwha?
We have 120GB of photos from the last 4 years (when our first kid was born). They are in folders:
- Year
- Month (starting with #, ie "5. May"
- Outing (ie "Air & Space Museum")
This makes it easy to search for specific events and vacations (based on the descriptive "outing" folder name), but the weakness is that it's hard to find a particular 'round the house pic if we forget what month it was taken.